St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-11

AN INTERNAL MACHINE
And a Threatening Letter Which Dr.. j
II. Fulton Received Yesterday.
A SUSPICIOUS INSTRUMENT
Which Had Bottles, Springs and Cotton
But No Dynamite Was
in II.

DR.. J. NJ. Fulton, of st. Paul. yesterday
was either the victim of hoax at the
hands of some of his friends, or
else has material for first-clasS sensa-
ton. 1t was in the shape of a threaten
ing letter, accompanied by an i'll
fernal machine, put together with
al the ingenuity of regular
dvnamiter's weapon, and big enough, if
properly loaded and fired, to scatter the
bricks in an ordinary sized tenement.
1t had been given out in certain cir
Giles that DR.. Fulton had an invitation
and ticket of admission to the
event at the Cook county. ILL.,,
Jail to-day, when four anarchists will
be dropped from a ScaffOld with moose
about their necks. At one time DR..
Fulton intended to accept this invita-
now, though he gives it
>out that he did so before opening his
mail yesterday. E rly in the afternoon
there came to him, by the special mail
delivery service, a letter pOStmarked
st. Paul" which read thus:
ST. PAUL, Nov. 10.-Sir: l have been
credibly informed that you have re-
ceived a private invitation to be present
tomorrow at the hanging of the inno-
cent and noble martyrs, SO-called an
archiStS. / merely write to inform you
that if you do, or in fact leave the city,
it will be at your own peril, and | warn
you of the consequences of such an act.
By order of the committee.
This sounds somewhat anarchistic,
but the doctor was not inclined to be
scared at the mere scrawl of some per-
son to him unknown. But little later
there came small box, also from the
st. Paul pOStOffice, which he decided to
HANDLE WITH CARE. =
In fact. he did not handle it at all, but
after getting one look at its general
build, he quietly put it on his window
sill. cOmbed down his hair, which
had begun to stand on end, and
sent for Capt. JOnn Bresett to come and
get the box and remove it to some place
where it might be examined, without
danger to his own Office furniture and
fixtures.
1t was a plain wooden box, about
eight inches in length and three inches
i'm width. On the inside, at one end,
were two small glass walls, with some
raw cotton and sand around them, and a
spiral wire in the center of which
was fuse. This was connected with a
cog and two brass wheels near the CEN
ter of the box. Another connecting
spiral wire with glass bottle in the
other end of the box. There were two
matches stuck in near the cog wheels,
with the explosive end up, so that
in drawing the lid the matches would
be ignited. 1t was the genuine internal
machine, carefully and artistically con-
structed; as much so as the works
of a watch. Capt. BreSsette took
the box to police headquarters,
and he carried it as tenderly as another
nurses her sleeping babe. In company
with GLOBE man he took it to the
yard in the rear of the city hall and
placed it on the ground in spot where
it would do the least harm, if it
should explode. The lid was carefully re-
moved. being lifted of, instead of Sided
out. Then a careful and scientific eX-
animation was made. A pile of shaw
ingS was collected, and train laid SO
that the mine could he exploded at
long range. The GLOBE man furnished
the match and Capt. Bressette lighted
the shavingS. The two then retired TO
a safe distance and watched results.
When the flame reached the box there
was a fiZz, puff of smoke and that was
all: the matches had exploded, but the
dynamite did not materialiZe. The ma
chine is on exhibition at DR.. FultOn's
Office